Brevis Quotes

#1. Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis.
(Whatever advice you give, be brief.)

Horace

#2. The very life which we enjoy is short.
[Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Sallust

#3. VITA BREVIS
A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong.

Piet Hein

#4. In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Horace

#5. Fiction serves a noble purpose, to oust secrecy, to obliterate shame, to use narrative as a blessed valve to relieve the awful pressure of the pent-up, unspoken pain of existence

Donal Ryan

#6. It would have to stand on the basis of what somebody had done to it and that would be the basis on which it would be judged. So it's a funny art form. You gain a great deal when you have good collaborators and sometimes people just don't understand what you've done.

Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

#7. All you need is a dream to drive you nuts.

Debasish Mridha

#8. You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

Jonathan Glazer

#9. Her old Grannie and subject must be the first to kiss her hand.

Queen Mary